17th July 2014, 22:10 Edited(This post was last modified: 17th July 2014, 22:13 by AJSlye.)

Do you have more than one printer installed (wrong drivers), or are you talking about after you hit add printer?
If you mean after you hit the add printer button then there is no need as they take hardly any room and are part of the cups package. Now, if you mean your failed attempt's at adding your printer (ie wrong driver) then just right click each of them to remove the extra ones.

(17th July 2014, 22:10)AJSlye Wrote: Do you have more than one printer installed (wrong drivers), or are you talking about after you hit add printer?
If you mean after you hit the add printer button then there is no need as they take hardly any room and are part of the cups package. Now, if you mean your failed attempt's at adding your printer (ie wrong driver) then just right click each of them to remove the extra ones.

No I tried adding the 32bit drivers when I couldn't get the 64bit ones to work. So now I wanted to remove them. But if they take little space... no big deal, I guess.

I have all the files installed and printer set to scan. It asks me to connect computer. I don't know how.

The usb cable is connected. I tried both Simple Scan and Skanlite. Neither find any scanner.
I also pasted this into the terminal and no scanners found.
sane-find-scanner

What next? If I don't get this running right now. I have to take it back to the store

EDIT: Well, I ended up taking my printer back to Staples and explained the situation. They actually
wrote on my receipt that they are giving me one more week to get this working. If not, then I can feel
free to return for exchange.

Here is what I get when searching for scanner:

:~$ sane-find-scanner

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
# result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
# scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

could not open USB device 0x0bda/0x0158 at 001:005: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x14cd/0x6600 at 001:003: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x04a9/0x2774 at 001:007: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0002 at 001:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 005:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x046d/0xc52f at 004:002: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 004:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 003:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x04f2/0x0841 at 002:002: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
could not open USB device 0x1d6b/0x0001 at 002:001: Access denied (insufficient permissions)
# No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
# you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup
# the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
# can't be detected by this program.

# You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
# found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
# necessary.

If you do need to get a different printer, I would suggest getting an HP or Brother, these two company directly offer support for Linux.

I went to staples today to check out other printers and
i didn't really like anything else they had. I buy from Staples
cause I get discounts. But I really like this Canon printer.
so I would really like to find a way to get it to work.
Hp printers are now JUNK unless you spend 600 or more!
Two Brother printers they had that I liked had issues and
I consider that a sign. So I told the guy I would give the
Canon another shot before I do anything else. He agreed.

Yes everything was installed though I ran it anyway in the terminal. Skanlite still finds no devices.
I thought someone else got this printer working? Why am I having so much trouble?? this is crazy!
Simple scanner.